An orthodox chess problem in which White must checkmate Black King in three moves.
Chéron, André vs Mate in 3 moves 1-0 Feuille d’Avis de Lausanne
1930
In chess,honestly,nobody cares how beautiful you play,if Morphy would be 2710 today,he would not get a single invitation.
Teymur Rajabov 2017
‘We may all be equal in the eyes of the Lord, but in my eyes you are certainly not equal to me.’
Robert Fischer
I understood that through chess I could express myself and chess became my natural language.
Boris Spassky 1995
Fischer was the first to send me a telegram when I was in Amsterdam after I had defected, saying ‘Congratulations on the correct move’.
Vikor Kortchnoi 1986 NIC
First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game
Siegbert Tarrasch